President Donald Trump received a clean bill of health during a routine medical examination at Walter Reed Medical Center, according to a three-page memo released by the White House on Friday. The 79-year-old showed strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and overall physical function, his physician declared.
Navy Captain Sean Barbabella, Trump's doctor, documented the findings from Tuesday's checkup in the memo, which stated the president remains "fully fit to carry out all duties" of the presidency. The memo noted Trump has experienced lower leg swelling and benign hand bruising but neither condition affects his overall fitness for office.
One recommendation emerged from the examination: Trump should lose weight, according to the physician's assessment.
Legal matters surrounding the president continued to develop Saturday. A Miami federal judge reopened Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, reviving a case the president and his sons had brought after their personal and business tax returns were leaked by a former contractor. Judge Kathleen Williams' decision to reopen the case came after a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges urged her to examine the $1.8 billion settlement more closely.
The third-party motion challenged the agreement as lacking detail and argued it was "a product of collusion" and "itself a fraud on the court." The decision represented an unusual move in civil litigation, where plaintiffs typically have broad authority to drop complaints.
Separately, the first lawsuit targeting the nation's largest immigration detention facility was filed Saturday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Legal organizations brought a class-action complaint against Camp East Montana in Texas, citing "dire" conditions that they say severely violate constitutional and human rights of detainees. Four detainees were named as plaintiffs on behalf of all current and future civil detainees at the facility.
Trump signaled plans to replace a concert series at the National Mall with what he called an "America Is Back" rally scheduled for next month. The move followed the withdrawal of multiple performers from the original event. In a series of posts to his Truth Social account Saturday, Trump also lauded his administration's efforts to turn the National Mall's reflecting pool blue and denounced a court ruling that removed his name from the Kennedy Center.
Author James Rodriguez: "Trump's health clearance gives him political breathing room, but the weight issue and mounting legal headaches on the IRS front suggest challenges ahead that no doctor's memo can resolve."
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